Something 4 The Weekend # 119

Brainiac: Hissing Prigs In Static Couture: "Kiss Me U Jacked Up Jerk" [mp3]

Twelve years ago tomorrow, Tim Taylor, the singer, keyboardist and defacto leader of Post-Punk/Synthpunk hotshots Brianiac, died in a car accident...

In a slightly different reality, like the kind you might find on the hit FOX TV show Fringe, Brainiac would be as huge and mythic as Nirvana, and Tim Taylor would be lionized like Cobain...

An argument might be made that Brainiac were more radical, more "punk", more artistic, than Nirvana...I'm not touching that one except to say that Cobain wrote better pop songs, and his voice proved he was never faking it...That counts for alot in my book...

Brainiac is some crazy-ass shit, let me just say that...They're worth your time...Or somebody's time...I still listen to their three albums with some regularity...Three albums - they've got that in common with Nirvana as well...

Hotcha! Hank